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Strategic Socio-Technical Innovation in Urban Living Labs: A Framework for Smart City Evolution

Smart Cities
Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are pivotal for promoting socio-technical innovation in smart cities, yet their role in achieving sustainable urban development remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by proposing a systematic literature review (SLR)
Augusto Velasquez Mendez, Jorge Lozoya Santos, Jose Fernando Jimenez Vargas   +2 more
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Pulsed Electrolysis Prevents Sulfur Poisoning for Sustained Sulfide Valorization

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Integrating pulsed electrolysis with Sc‐doped NiFe‐LDH enables sustainable sulfide valorization, achieving >500 h stability, 99.8% efficiency. Moreover, this technology produces high‐purity sulfur and sodium formate, boosting profit by 121% to $1,294.7 per tonne of hydrogen.
Zhiyan Hou, Yangbo Ma, Yufeng Wu, Weijin Cao, Zhengxiao Guo, Changlong Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looper: Towards a Methodology of Co-Design Approaches [PDF]

, 2018
When setting up their own participatory process, researchers and citizens alike are confronted with a wide array of online and offline tools targeted towards facilitating co-creation.
Keseru, Imre, Macharis, Cathy, Wiegmann, Mareille   +2 more
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A framework for analyzing the role of living labs in smart cities: insights from a case study in Japan

Discover Sustainability
Living labs integrated into smart city development offer promising strategies for citizen engagement and participatory urban planning. This study introduces a comprehensive framework for quantitatively analyzing living labs' impact on citizens ...
Jooho Park, Kentaro Watanabe, Fumiya Akasaka, Sayaka Fujii   +3 more
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani, Carlo Antonini, Teresa Gatti, Mengjiao Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitating Quintuple helix innovation with urban living labs [PDF]

, 2015
This paper discusses the Urban Living Lab approach as a way to put the Quintuple Helix model for innovation into practice. In this analysis we focus on the concepts innovation democracy, ‘mode 3’ knowledge production, the innovation ecosystem as a system
Baccarne, Bastiaan, De Marez, Lieven, Schuurman, Dimitri   +2 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Ovarian Matrisome Dynamics and αvβ3‐Mediated Regulation in Early Follicular Development

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The matrisome undergoes dynamic remodeling during early follicular development. Integrin αvβ3 mediates matrisome signals, regulating primordial follicle activation/atresia and secondary follicle growth via Hippo/mTOR pathways, with conserved roles in human ovaries, offering therapeutic targets for ovarian disorders.
Tong Wu, Yanzhi Feng, Qingqing Zhu, Ting Jiang, Yueyue Gao, Kebing Nie, Xianan Tang, Ying Chen, Dianxing Hu, Xudan Yang, Shixuan Wang, Meng Wu, Jinjin Zhang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role and Limits of Third Places in the Fabrication of Contemporary Cities

Territoire en Mouvement, 2022
The notion of ‘third place’ is usually applied in an empirical way. It covers multiple realities, such as projects of co-working spaces, living labs and fab labs.
Raphaël Besson
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Collective learning experiences in planning: the potential of experimental living labs [PDF]

, 2015
‘Living labs’ originate from an R&D environment, and intend to innovate commodities by experience-based knowledge, with a direct involvement of users. Meanwhile, the living labs approach has been shifting into a wider range of applications, and has also ...
Dehaene, Michiel, Kuhk, Annette, Schreurs, Jan   +2 more
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